System Atlas

Market and positioning → security and access → product or service design

Gates that decide who and what passes, with work flowing in and out. Security and access is a gate: 1 flow in and 4 out.

Within one industryHolds in Artificial intelligence. Counted from public, sourced parts only; each organization below links to the parts it was counted on.

Organizations running it
35
Of their industry
32%
The pattern
What every instance has, in order
  1. Decisions
    Market and positioning
    in 100% of instances
    then
  2. Decisions
    Security and access
    in 100% of instances
    control
  3. Process
    Product or service design
    in 97% of instances

Coloured arrows: a flow of that type seen between the two at instance organizations. Grey arrows: order only.

Structure
Element
Share of instances
Companies
Invariant 3
At least 90% have it
Process1
Product or service design
97%
34
Decisions2
Market and positioning
100%
35
Security and access
100%
35
Variant 35
20 to 80%: where they differ · Members
People5
Org structure
77%
27
Suppliers and partners
69%
24
Sales
57%
20
Customer service and support
37%
13
Account management
29%
10
Process10
Production or delivery
74%
26
Hiring
69%
24
Customer onboarding
46%
16
Billing and invoicing
37%
13
Quality control
31%
11
Logistics and fulfilment
31%
11
Uptime and incidents
31%
11
Evaluation and red-teaming
29%
10
Onboarding and training
29%
10
Pretraining and fine-tuning runs
26%
9
Software3
Integrations
51%
18
Inference serving
40%
14
Core system of record
20%
7
Data6
Customer data
34%
12
Reporting and dashboards
31%
11
Data management
26%
9
Inventory and assets
23%
8
Compute capacity
23%
8
Legal and contracts administration
23%
8
Decisions11
Regulatory compliance
77%
27
Pricing
71%
25
Strategy and goals
66%
23
Policies and culture
60%
21
Data protection and security assurance
54%
19
Governance and decision rights
49%
17
Usage pricing and metering
43%
15
Contracts
37%
13
Performance and pay
34%
12
Health, safety and environment
26%
9
Model release and versioning
23%
8
Variant · where they differ
Member
Variants, couplings and instances

Every level, number, source and dimension: Member, $300 a year.

Couplings · what comes together
Member
Variants, couplings and instances

Every level, number, source and dimension: Member, $300 a year.

Entropy
Where it runs rough

Operating-reality findings at instance companies: workarounds, manual hand-offs, bottlenecks.

  • Sales10 findings
    Manual hand-off 6 · Dependency 3 · Bottleneck 1 · at 9 companies
  • Suppliers and partners8 findings
    Dependency 7 · Manual hand-off (public record) 1 · at 8 companies
  • Customer onboarding4 findings
    Dependency 4 · at 4 companies
  • Production or delivery4 findings
    Dependency 3 · Bottleneck 1 · at 4 companies
  • Customer service and support3 findings
    Dependency 1 · Tacit rule 1 · Workaround 1 · at 3 companies
  • Billing and invoicing2 findings
    Dependency (public record) 1 · Manual hand-off 1 · at 2 companies
  • Compute capacity2 findings
    Bottleneck 1 · Dependency 1 · at 2 companies
  • Data protection and security assurance2 findings
    Dependency 1 · Dependency (public record) 1 · at 2 companies
Seen across
Where it holds
Business model
  • subscription26%
  • marketplace9%
  • product6%
  • service6%
Size
  • 1000+ people11%
  • 201-500 people11%
  • 501-1000 people11%
  • 51-200 people9%
  • 11-50 people3%
Region
  • United States43%
  • France6%
  • North America6%
  • San Francisco, United States6%
  • Canada3%
  • China3%
Instances
The 35 companies it was seen at
Member
Variants, couplings and instances

Every level, number, source and dimension: Member, $300 a year.